The "Am I good enough for Investment Banking/Consultancy?" Thread

For what?

Summer internships

Economics at University of Nottingham
or
Investment and Financial Risk at City University London (Plus one year placement year)

Applying through adjustment as got better grades than expected (A*AA)

Opinions and help would be much appreciated! Really stuck here and got 5 days to decideInvestment & Financial Risk ManagementInvestment & Financial Risk Management

Wow that's excellent, is your firm choice a semi-target?

In your position I'd probably take a gap year and apply - 1 year out could have a huge benefit for your career

most summer interns don't have a clue about i.e. DCF for IBD/ER, .

Economics at University of Nottingham
or
Investment and Financial Risk at City University London (Plus one year placement year)

Applying through adjustment as got better grades than expected (A*AA)

Opinions and help would be much appreciated! Really stuck here and got 5 days to decideInvestment & Financial Risk ManagementInvestment & Financial Risk Management

I think it is a lower semi-target. Do you know of any programmes that could benefit me during my gap year?

I think I may apply to all the targets relevant to my course (Ox, UCL, LSE, Warwick) but this is very high risk. What is a safe fifth choice where I would most likely gain an offer and is decent for IB


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applying to those 4 means you dont feel confident to get an offer from any one. apply to three of those and make two apps to notts and then a safety wherever, notts will give you an offer.

I'd say go: 2/3 target, 2-3 semi

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applying to those 4 means you dont feel confident to get an offer from any one. apply to three of those and make two apps to notts and then a safety wherever, notts will give you an offer.

I'd say go: 2/3 target, 2-3 semi

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Ok what are the semi-targets I should look at? Durham/Nottingham/Bristol? Or are there other ones which are better? Surrey and Exeter seem to give a lot of offers out but I'd probably stay away from Exeter as they've been giving out many A*A*A offers lately

Random question, would Electronic and Information Engineering at Imperial limit you to Technology or could you still get an IBD job with that?

Yeah, those are the top three semis, generally. Places like: KCL, Cass Business School, Bath, Manchester etc. are also fairly good.

To your other question, Imperial is Imperial. Ypu'd only be limited if you choose to only apply to Tech, it really doesn't matter what course you do for most roles (except quants) in IB anyway.

Hi,

So I have always had the plan of going into investment banking and have done an insight day this summer at JP Morgan. Results day didn't really go as planned and I am no longer going to do Maths & Physics at Warwick but Law instead. I went into clearing and knowing I had to go to a IBD target I solely looked at Warwick, the only course which was AAA was Law all the reast were AAB or ABB, therefore less prestigous. Anyway as I feel like I wont be able to gain anything useful from a gap year I have accepted Law at Warwick.
I just wanted to ask you guys if this course is fine and will still put me in a strong position for applying to spring weeks, or should I be looking to try and change course to maybe Accounting & finance or something, I'm getting some remarks so hopefully my grades will increase from the A*ABB (BioMathsChemPhy) I got to A*AAB or A*A*AB if i'm really lucky.

Any response would be appreciated- I am slightly lost and need some reassurance

you dont have to go a target whatsoever, honestly this bullcrap is spouted on here too much, notts bristol durham bath is fine, dont choose a degree you know nothing about just for the sake its warwick, please dont. take a year out and reapply for what you really want to do, there isnt any point going through a degree for 3 years you hate, to then do ibd, which youll also hate.

I get you don't HAVE to go to a target but I know it undoubtedly helps. There is no course I have really ever been set on, I origionally applied to natural sciences courses because I had no idea what specific one I wanted to do, then I did a lot of course swapping before my exams began and finally had biomedical eng at imperial and maths and physics at warwick as my firm and insurance, even though I wasn't super keen on physics and didn't do further maths a level. Anyway i'm fine with studying law, and have always thought about it as a possibility, so i'm really fine with doing the degree. I just wanted to check how I would fair for spring week applications.